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Today's Poll!Health department expands programs in Russellville
Monday, October 8, 2012
A breast-feeding support group soon will be formed in Russellville by the Cole County Health Department.
In addition, the department brings several public health education programs to the rural community, particularly through the schools and businesses.
To educate and prevent childhood obesity, the department helped form committees at several rural schools, including the Cole R-1 schools.
The first step will be to assess problems and what is being done well with regard to healthy options in the school environment.
Then the school-based committee will make an action plan.
The department will serve as a resource and guide to the process, but it is customized to the specific school’s need because they develop their own plan.
Changes other schools have made include alternatives to sweet-treat fundraisers and pausing throughout the day for school-wide physical activity.
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clingingredneck 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Sounds like we are in communist china. We will have school wide callesthenics for 30 minutes each day before we each say how our beloved leader is so good for our country. Why don't you save some of that money, cut my taxes a bit, and let me decide how to raise my own children. It infuriates me that they are paying someone to stick their nose into my business and tell me how to raise my kids. It also infuriates me that they are buying sex toys (dill dos) with my tax dollars to show welfare women how to have safe sex. Why don't you guys ever talk about THOSE programs? About all the nonsense that goes on in our state government and the many inventive ways they choose to waste our tax dollars.
tonto_goldberg 7 months, 2 weeks ago
If you would just read the article for content, you would have noticed this is the Cole County (non-political) Health Department staff working with the Russellville community to develop a program that suits people from the Russellvile area. You don't like the program, don't go; it is for those who want to go.
Elementary school kids need some exercise through the day to allow them to do their school work. You know, recess and physical education classes. Otherwise, fidgeting becomes a problem with most kids.
spelchek 7 months, 2 weeks ago
"To educate and prevent childhood obesity" -- How can there be a record amount of people on food stamps and an obesity epidemic at the same time? I know food stamp receivers are eating healthy thanks to government programs so that leaves the middle class and the evil rich people that are fat. If the middle class and the rich don't qualify for food stamps (or any government program for that matter) then for whom is the obesity literature aimed?
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